Communicating with the Spirits Hardback
Edited by Eva (Professor emeritus of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Pecs) Pocs, Gabor (University Professor of Medieval Studies, Central European University) Klaniczay
Part of the Demons, Spirits, Witches series
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Focuses on the problem of communication with the other world: the phenomenon of spirit possession and its changing historical interpretations, the imaginary schemes elaborated for giving accounts of the journeys to the other world, for communicating with the dead, and finally the historical archetypes of this kind of religious manifestation-trance prophecy, divination, and shamanism.
Recognized historians and ethnologists analyze the relationship, coexistence and conflicts of popular belief systems, Judeo-Christian mythology and demonology in medieval and modern Europe.
The essays address links between rites and beliefs, folklore and literature; the legacy of various pre-Christian mythologies; the syncretic forms of ancient, medieval and modern belief- and rite-systems; "pure" examples from religious-ethnological research outside Europe to elucidate European problems.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:Central European University Press
- Publication Date:15/06/2005
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- ISBN:9789637326134
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:Central European University Press
- Publication Date:15/06/2005
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- ISBN:9789637326134